Specsavers marked mine as urgent and I had them the following day, costs a bit extra but worth it. Just a point, you should not be driving your car either until you have the glasses and pass the eyesight test. I have always had a spare pair of specs in my bag as I am sure that used to be a rule.
for the hgv medical, the doctor should check you can read think itâs the 2nd line bottom with glasses if you need them, and the 4th line without glasses.
The law says clearly, if you need glasses to see a licence plate at 20 metres, then you must wear them at all times driving. Though the 2nd line is slightly harder to read than a plate at 20m.
The fact you have been told you need glasses to drive, means you must wait until they come before carrying on. No ifs no buts if the police catch you youâre in trouble.
Itâs advisable but not a rule to have a spare rule, unless you routinely drive at above 1 feet high i.e. you fly a plane. Pilots need a spare pair at all times, but even they can fly with glasses now. Though they do need to also pass the colour vision test too which we donât.
DVSA donât make it easy though, they talk in terms of snellen but opticians can have variations of the testing chart.
When you have your next medical, take your opticians prescription with you. The doctor is supposed to fill out the relevant section on the medical form showing your new eyesight.
Itâs illegal in some countries on the continent to drive without spare glasses in the vehicle.
I would suspect driving after being told the vision is not up to standard to drive to then have an accident would invalidate the insurance for a potential claim.
How that Dominic Cummings got away with that blatant lie of testing his eye sight in the pandemic to risk his family in the car to go to Barnard Castle is beyond me, he should have been prosecuted?
Whatâs confusing? Youâve been told by a medical practitioner not to drive due to poor eyesight. You could be a cowboy and continue. If you do and things go wrong,be prepared that what may have been a due care offence would be a dang driving.
Youâre aggravating any other offence
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one rule for the elite, another for the rest of us oiks.
For having parties where they actually laughed at the general population for (largely) obeying the convid rules, they deserve to be strung up by the balls. Oh wait, we ran out of fine enough thread for that. Just the usual neck then. Though theirâs is so brass, might be a long long day.
With the line reading i have always been able to read the bottom line with my good eye but I can read maybe the third line at a push with my weak eye. This is why the first gp doing my original medical said I would fail. Iâve always been able to read a number plate at the required distance and often much further. But itâs because my left eye is so weak he failed me. Iâve no idea if the test requirements for the weak eye was relaxed somewhen between 2007 and 2013 as itâs strange how I passed easily in 2013.
It was abhorrent behaviour, sneaking in suit cases and carrier bags from Tesco Express in to Downing Street.